They're offered on sale and I intend to buy 5-6 of them and use them as WXP and W7 installation media. Kingston's technical pages say nothing about bootability, couldn't find anything by googling either.

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They're offered on sale and I intend to buy 5-6 of them and use them as WXP and W7 installation media. Kingston's technical pages say nothing about bootability, couldn't find anything by googling either.

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Memory sticks do not come by default as bootable devices you need to make it bootable there is various software available for that.

Sorry for not being clear in my description.
I know that USB sticks need to be made bootable, like with that program from HP.
What I am wondering about has to do with the fact that some USB sticks simply can not be made bootable, no matter what software is applied. There is for instance a 4GB stick from Maxell that can't be made to boot.

i have 2 kingston usb data travellers and both can boot windows with no problem. most decent sticks can be made bootable. both are 4gb and are adequate, 8gb is a bit much when windows only require about 3gb for a bootable stick.

They're offered on sale and I intend to buy 5-6 of them and use them as WXP and W7 installation media. Kingston's technical pages say nothing about bootability, couldn't find anything by googling either.